Thursday, September 24, 2009

"If Marlovians seem more jovial than de Vere’s promoters, that is because 'Kit' Marlowe was cool," writes Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. Click here for the fun September 25 article "The Shakespeare Truthers."

13 comments:

Dresdendoll
said...

this is hilarious! we know alot about Shakespeare's life? No, professor. We don't. We have alot of speculation about S's life.Stratfordian evidence is certainly no better than Marlovian or Oxfordian evidence.

Wow, the Baconians must be fuming. Bacon is no longer a candidate? And the Baconian theory started it all, too! And what about the Rutlanders and Derbyites? I don't believe that any of these men were Shakespeare, but to say that the field has been "narrowed down to two" seems misleading to me.

Good point,dres; this is what they try to do...pass off speculation as fact. And it's speculation from their case-closed conviction that Shakespeare wrote the plays. So it's jaded. Diana Price''s book is fabulous, by the way.

I really question whether these professors are capable of thinking outside the box when their reputations have all been built on Shakespeare as author.

So they paint doubters as nuts and fringe. It's typical politics that we see from our leaders every day. Label the opposition. So predictable!

Carlo,What I love about you guys is that you all seem to be having a blast. I really can't say this about everyone else, including Stratfordians. Congratulations for making the case for Marlowe and for doing so in a "cool" way!

let me clarify: beware of Shakespeare "evidence" that tries to cloud the connection between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the writer. More evidence that Shakespeare the man existed DOES NOT mean he wrote a thing. Of course he existed, by the way.

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Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate (1984-1998)

"The way to really develop as a writer is to make yourself a political outcast, so that you have to live in secret. This is how Marlowe developed into Shakespeare."

Letters of Ted Hughes, ed. Christopher Reid, Faber 2007, p.120

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We kicked off in May 2008. We're a blog dedicated to the brilliant Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Yes, we believe he could have authored many of the Shakespeare works, and so we offer up hearty servings of delicious intrigue. Thanks for visiting!

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THE POWER OF US: KIT Marlowe Up, Earl of Oxford Down

"Meanwhile, the authorship debate shows no signs of fading away. Francis Bacon's star has waned, eclipsed long ago by the Earl of Oxford's. Now Christopher Marlowe's star is on the rise. 'It looks like there's a shelf life to every candidate' of about 75 or 80 years, Shapiro says. 'There's a lot more energy and enthusiasm behind Marlowe.'"

Christopher Marlowe - prodigy, successful playwright/poet, and pretty darn good spy for Queen Elizabeth - lands himself in the kind of hot water that may send him to the gallows. His powerful handlers in espionage, concerned about saving their talented agent, decide to fake his death and send him away. Marlowe, in hiding, continues to write plays and poems. William Shakespeare agrees to be the frontman for these works.

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